Kernel is the connective layer between your faculty and the funding you can win.

Our track record.

Kernel has already helped move Defense funding into university labs, built and run by our Stanford team:

$16.19MDoD funding enabled

20projects funded

14.4%of the university’s ONR & ARL funding

Research Kernel has moved from lab to field.

Undersea

Undersea Awareness

3D point-cloud relocalization for the undersea fight.

Autonomy

Autonomous Naval Systems

AI accelerators for spatial autonomy.

Sensors

IR Sensor Domes

Nano-ceramic additive manufacturing.

Energy

Naval Energy

Sodium-metal batteries and resilient microgrids.

Aerospace

Composite UAVs

Multi-functional airframes for urban operations.

Teaming

Human-Agent Teaming

Adaptive human-robot teaming for contested operations.

Meet the Kernel Team: an AI researcher, an aerospace engineer, and a former U.S. Army Ranger who wrote the book on selling to defense.

Prashaant RanganathanAI researcher · multi-time founder · Stanford BS, CS & Design · Technology Transition for Defense

Nilay Papila, PhDAerospace engineer · Assistant Director · Technology Transition for Defense

Jeffrey Decker, PhDFormer U.S. Army Ranger · Program Director, Stanford Hacking for Defense · Managing Director, Technology Transition for Defense